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The BPYO showed excellent endurance and enormous focus in this difficult piece, which, as Zander pointed out, involves many performers playing instruments in unusual ways. The winds prevailed in an excellent introduction, with bassoon soloist Andrew Salaru, principal flutist Sadie Goodman, and principal oboist Victoria Solis trading the famous ...
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Sep 6, 2024 · Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons. January 30 & February 1. Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s 1919 masterpiece, a meditation on love, loss, acceptance, and moving on, receives just its second Boston performance, courtesy of the BSO and Andris Nelsons, whose operatic projects have been among the indisputable triumphs of his music directorship.
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Oct 10, 2024 · Boston Symphony Orchestra Philippe Jordan, conductor Jan Lisiecki, pianist Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 7:30 p.m. Symphony Hall
Boston Classical Review » Blog Archive » Boston Symphony opens …
Jan 12, 2024 · Nothing draws a crowd like The Rite of Spring.Or, apparently, Seong-Jin Cho. Together, the combination of Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 homage to pagan Russia and the superstar Korean pianist playing Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand resulted in a full house for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the new year Thursday night..
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Performances. BPYO impressively handles the challenges of Dvořák and Stravinsky – Nov 04, 2024. The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under founding conductor Benjamin Zander opened […] Jerusalem Quartet’s intensity vies with rough edges at Jordan Hall – Nov 02, 2024. In music as in love, passion can be a double-edged sword.
Boston Classical Review » 2024
Pappano, BSO serve up a season highlight in short but insightful program – Oct 25, 2024. Brevity, Shakespeare tells us, is the soul of wit. Yet concision […]
The organ takes the spotlight as Rachid makes impressive BSO …
Oct 11, 2024 · Take it from Hector Berlioz: organ and orchestra shouldn’t mix. “The organ and the orchestra are both Kings, or rather one is Emperor and the other Pope,” the Gallic master wrote in his Treatise on Instrumentation.. “They have different missions, their interests are too vast and too divergent to be confused…Every time I have heard the organ playing together with the …
Boston Classical Review » Blog Archive » An individual …
2 days ago · To live, Nietzsche tells us, is to suffer, and few 19 th-century composers captured the essence of that sentiment more memorably than Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Yet the Russian master was much more than a passive victim of fate, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Thursday-night performance of his Symphony No. 6 reminded.
Boston Classical Review » Blog Archive » Hrůša, Bamberg …
Apr 24, 2024 · There’s nothing like making up for lost time. That, on the one hand, is what the Bamberg Symphony did in their first Celebrity Series concert since 1983, delivering one of the meatiest—and most canon-centric—programs of the season Tuesday night at Symphony Hall.
Boston Classical Review » Blog Archive » A retrospective 2024-25 …
Apr 4, 2024 · The Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates Andris Nelsons’ first decade as music director while also highlighting new and recent initiatives in its 2024-25 season, which was announced Thursday.